bikarr
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Old Saxon *bikari, bikeri, from Proto-West Germanic *bikārī.
Noun edit
bikarr m (genitive bikars, plural bikrar)
Declension edit
Declension of bikarr (strong a-stem)
Descendants edit
- Icelandic: bikar
- Faroese: bikar
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bikar, bekar; (dialectal) bekare
- Old Swedish: bikare
- Danish: bæger
- → Middle English: biker, beker (partially from Middle Dutch)
References edit
- “bikarr”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press